Thu 11 Oct 2007
Sports Park Site Sought by Santa Clarita
Posted by admin under City of Santa Clarita , Local , Sports 1 CommentSanta Clarita council members have voted to spend up to $90,000 for Big League Dreams Consulting to find a potential site within the city for a sports park reports the Daily News.
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Big League Dreams is a private company that works with cities to build sports parks with baseball and softball fields that are replicas of historic major league stadiums such as Chicago’s Wrigley Field, New York’s Yankee Stadium and Boston’s Fenway Park.
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The complexes can also include soccer fields, multipurpose facilities and other amenities. The City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to hire Big League Dreams, which has built similar sites in Cathedral City near Palm Springs, Chino Hills in San Bernardino County and sites in Riverside County.
The city is also looking for an independent consultant to do a feasibility study and economic-impact report for the sports park. The council could vote on whom to hire for that report in early December.
Councilman TimBen Boydston, who voted against the measure, questioned why the feasibility study wasn’t done first.
“I don’t want the Field of Dreams to become a Field of Schemes,” Boydston said.
Read it here: SCV Sports Park Sought
October 11th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
What a GREAT plan. These are things that a city SHOULD invest in. Culture!
Yeah, I know, baseball is not culture, but hey Ken burns did a documentary on PBS on Baseball, so it should be culture right? It was liberal PBS….culture…
Anyway, all joking aside, this is so cool. A big league replica in town and then maybe a minor league team. What a great way to GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY.
I think even Lynn Plambeck would like this idea. Baseball field surrounded by green belt and trails.. All in the old Bermite area.
Hey wait, didnt I PROPOSE THAT a year a go? hehehe glad someone else thought it was cool too. Just get it done SCV.
Great great move!!!
Jack Buck Murphy